Steve Katz

Guitarist/singer Steve Katz may not be quite a household name, never having pursued a solo career, but he's played on an enviable string of recordings during the 1960s and '70s, in acoustic folk, jazz, blues, R&B, hard rock, and almost every other popular genre that's come along in America since the start of the '60s. Katz was born in Brooklyn, NY in 1945 and grew up in the upstate city of Schenectady. Already a gifted musician in his early teens, he was good enough to get hired for a local television program called Teenage Barn, doing his versions of the teen pop hits of the ...